根据列维-斯特劳斯(C.Levi-Strauss)的形象说法,现代社会更象是蒸汽机,而不是钟表;这是一些熊熊燃烧的社会。每个社会内部都有火焰在猛烈地燃烧,数不尽的冲突、争执和分歧的产生各有缘由,例如:收入平等化问题、价格自由问题、用激素饲养的牛肉的食用问题,以及对待上帝、司法、国家等等的问题,各种对立观点和对抗力量总是彼此抵触而又彼此妥协,而这些妥协又一而再、再而三地受到某个新措施、 According to C. Levi-Strauss’s image, modern society is more like a steam engine than a clock and watch; it is a raging society. Flames are burning violently within each society. Countless conflicts, disputes and divergences have their own causes, such as income inequality, price freedom, the consumption of beef raised with hormones, and the treatment of God , The judiciary, the state, etc. All kinds of opposing views and opposition forces always contradict each other and compromise with each other, and these compromises are again and again subjected to some new measure,